Method of manufacturing netted fringe



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p 0. W. JACKSON. METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NETTED FRINGE.

,452. Patented Mar. 1,1887

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METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NETTE D FRINGE.

CBPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,452,6lated March 1, 1887. Application filed September 20, 1886. Serial No. 214,001. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES WILLIAM J ACK- SON, asubject ofthe Queen ofGreat Britain and Ireland, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Netted Fringe and the Method of Manufacturing the Same; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of my invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make use of such method and manufacture the said fringe thereby.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawing accompanying this specification, which is aview of the completed netted fringe manufactured under my method, and illustrating the manner in which such fringe is constructed.

A is a gimp or border to the fringe.

B is the netted portion of the fringe.

b is one of the strings or cords forming the netted portion. b is a second like string or cord.

CD are ornamentations, attached to thelower side of the netted portion of the fringe and forming apart of the netted fringe, so called.

Heretofore netted fringes have been made by weaving into the gimp or border A at suitable intervals a long continuous string or cord of the material from which it is desired to form the netting of the netted fringe, and such string or cord is afterward cut at the bend or turn of said cord farthest from said border A, and afterward suitably knotted by hand to form the netting of the fringe. The cords or strings forming the netted portions of this fringe thus made run in the completed fringe nearly at right angles to the length of the fringe, orin the same direction as does the filling in ordinarily woven goods, said strings or cords diverging to the right and left of the line of said filling by reason of the knottings in such netted portion of the fringe, the length of the cords or strings, after the same are cut, as before described, va-. rying according to the depth of fringe desired. The knottings heretofore named are necessarily formed by hand in the ordinary method, as here described, of making this class and kind of fringe. After having knotted the strings woven into the gimp, as above described, any desired ornamentationis attached to the lower end of said knotted strings, and

the fringe is completed. A netted fringe produced in the manner and by the method above described,'wherein the netted portion is formed of cords of more than one color or shade,must necessarily have such different colors or shades running in a line substantially at right angles to the length of said fringe.

The object of my invention is to secure a method of manufacturing a netted fringe in which the cords or strings forming the netted portion of the fringe shall run substantially parallel with the length of the fringe, varying to the right and left of such parallel lines by reason only of the knots forming the netting, or in the direction substantially of the warp in ordinary woven goods; and, further, to secure a method of manufacturing such netted fringe whereby I may be able to manufacture the netting of the fringe either by hand or by machinery, as preferred, and the cost of producing such netted fringe thereby greatly reduced.

A further object and purpose of my invention is to secure, as a new article of manufacture, a netted fringe in which the varying col ors or shades of the cord forming the netted portion of the fringe will produce varying lines of color or shades parallel with the length of the fringe and gimp or border A.

To carry my invention into effect it is first necessary to make the netted portion of the fringe, which, as before set out, may be knotted or netted by hand or on a machine, as by the ordinary fishnet-weaving machine. The netted portion of the fringe having been obtained, and of any desired depth, with cords of different colors or shades, if preferred, a gimp or border, A, is woven to it by suitable hand weaving-machines, the netted portion of the fringe being woven into the gimp or borderA of thefringe at suitable intervals by the operator placing such netted portion in proper position at the proper instant of the weaving of such gimp to secure the looping of the weftthread of the heading or gimp around cord 1) of the netting. After having woven the gimp or border to the netted portion, any'kind or series of ornamentation-as balls or tassels, if the same are desired-are attached by hand to the lower or bottom edge of the netting; or a second woven gimp or border may be attached thereto by weaving it thereon in like manner, as above described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The method of making netted fringe, consisting of, first, forming the netted portion of said fringe with the cords forming the netting running substantially parallel with the length thereof, and, secondly, of weaving to said notted portion a gimp or border by the bringing of such netted portion in proper position to such gimp or border at the proper instant of the weaving of the same and looping the weft-' thread of said gimp or heading with the upper cord of said netting, substantially as set forth.

2. The method of making netted fringe,consisting of, first, forming the netted portion of said fringe with the cords thereof rnnnin g substantially parallel with its length; secondly, of weaving to said netted portion a gimp or border by bringing the netting in proper position to such gimp or border at the proper instant of the weaving of: the same and looping the weft-thread of said gimp or heading with the upper cord of said netting, and, third, of attaching to the lower or other edge of said netted portion suitable ornamentation, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a netted fringe having the cords or strings forming the netting diverging to the right and left of a line or lines parallel with a border or gimp attached to said netting at proper intervals, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a netted fringe having the cords or strings forming the netting diverging to the right and left of a line or lines parallel with a borderor gimp attached to said netting at proper intervals and having suitable ornamentation attached to the lower or other side of said netting, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES WILLIAM JACKSON. Witnesses:

J. M. BROWN,

(Jr-mares T. BROWN. 

